دانلود کتاب شادی در عمل – راهنمای یک فیلسوف برای زندگی خوب

We’ve all been there before—the morning after landing a new job, earning a promotion, winning a race, passing a test, getting a candidate elected, or achieving some change in the world for which we fought long and hard. We wake up in the afterglow of last night’s celebration relieved that today, at least, there is no interview to practice, mock exam to take, speech to refine, or result to await. Finally we have a break, and the world is wide open for whatever we want to do, at least now, at least for a moment. So we kick up our heels, take a vacation (if time and resources permit), or perhaps just indulge for a little while in the Netflix shows we’ve been meaning to catch up on. Intermittently we reflect on the accomplishment of yesterday and look back on it with pride. But all the while we are unable to entirely suppress the nagging sense that our newfound happiness is slipping away almost as fast as it came. Sooner or later, we find ourselves asking, “What now?” We realize that the milestone that was supposed to make us happy and that was supposed to justify the arduous process of self-sacrifice leaves us empty. We learn once more, but almost as if for the first time, that, after all, we are the same person, now with one more accomplishment in the hopper of achievements, but no closer to the good life and already looking for the next hill to climb. Soon our celebratory break comes to a close and we plunge back into striving for a new goal, with all the anxieties that accompanied the first.